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Originally Posted by Zachariasx
J.E. Johnson mentiones in his book ("Wing Commander") the occurrence of a Spit 9 having a damaged wing after a midair collition with another Spit.
Backtranslating to English he says "...and I saw, that the largest part of the starboard aileron as well as the wingtip was torn off."
The pilot managed to keep flying for some time, but lot long enough to fly from the french coast (wher the collision happened) all th way to english soil. The pilot was struggling with all his force to hold the controls. The plane was rolling more and more until it was not possible to hold it level flight. As his canopy was blocked and closed, the pilot, Shouldice, perished in the sea.
So it can be debated wheter the theoretical possibility of keeping a plane somehow aloft is realistic when done with a joystik, when in the real world control forces prohibit such.
The impact of control forces were also a real world debate: As Hanna Reitsch complained (to the Führer!) that the control forces of a Me 321 are unacepptably high (It had just one pilot seat) Willy Messereschmitt retorted (also to the Führer) "Well, she's not really a big warrior, is she?"
(She wasn't really tall... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rch_Hitler.jpg)
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I agree that to fly with half wing should be very hard (i know from a real life). But what i want to say is that 109 has very well modeled flight behavior without a wing, yes i can keep forward but not to keep combat and defensive. while in spits and hurry they save 95% of thear roll rate and lift, this sholdnt be possible (i will not comment AI, without wing and ailerons and ruder and elevator they have the same performance as on a brand new one plane)!